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Book SynopsisThe Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century''s most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the Avant-Garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong, with an international team of distinguished film historians telling the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel. Other chapters outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world - the varied and distinctive filmic traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. Also included are over 140 special inset features on the film-makers and personalities - Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman - who have had an enduring impact in popTrade Reviewa richly rewarding, impressively wide-ranging trawl through the medium's first 100 years * Time Out *an essential guide for all serious cinema enthusiasts * Flicks *If any new book deserves the gloss of informed and sacred text, it is The Oxford History of World Cinema ... a sound and thorough job in creating something that at least tries to be genuinely definitive. * Independent *a model of clear editorial organization in which the essays of more than 80 contributors are marshalled into an illuminating mosaic. * The Economist *

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Book SynopsisImagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, cant attain.The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world''s leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.Trade ReviewWhen a renowned academic publisher such as Oxford University Press gathers well-known (mainly British and American) historians to write an illustrated history of the whole world, one can expect a cross between the highest condition, light and metaphorical language and opulent visualization - and this is exactly what this volume delivers. * Matthias Middell, Comparativ *To say that The Oxford Illustrated History Of The World is a monumental undertaking is something of an understatement. In just over 400 pages some of the world's most noted historians come together to tell the story of human history, from its first breath to the modern age ... The result is a triumph ... The Oxford Illustrated History Of The World is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps and wherever necessary tables and diagrams, and the balance of text versus illustration is just right. As accessible as it is well-researched, it really is a joy to read and will satisfy anyone who wants to delve deeper into the history of the world. * All About History *Extraordinary ... [A] beautiful book, with accessible essays of such originality and scholarly depth a treasure house of startling images. * Richard Drayton, Times Literary Supplement *Some books are admirable because of their sheer scope and ambition, and this overview of the entirety of the human story fits firmly within that category. * History Revealed *A handy compendium of some of the major moments and periods of transformation in human history, set in a global context. * Lucia Marchini, Minerva *Condensing the story of humanity's 200,000 year tenure on Earth into 450 pages (including pictures) could be an act of hubris or the result of orderly - yet imaginative - minds making connections across centuries and continents. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World is more the latter... a pleasure to read with many thought-provoking passages. * David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express *Are you intellectually curious, but very busy? Would you have liked to understand the biggest questions about the history of the last 200,000 years, but you don't have the time required to read 97 different fat books to tell you the answers? Are you looking for just one book that will summarize it all? Then this is your book! It's exciting, up-to-date, and well-written. You'll love it! * Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at UCLA and Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and The World Until Yesterday *Felipe Fernández-Armesto and his gifted team have produced the world history for our times, ecologically oriented, written from multiple standpoints and informed by systematic comparison. * Peter Burke, Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge *A truly remarkable book. * Richard Lofthouse, Quad Magazine *Brilliant and provocative * Art Eyewitness *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Children of the Ice 1: Clive Gamble: Humanity From the Ice: The Emergence and Spread of an Adaptive Species 2: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Mind in the Ice: Art and Thought before Agriculture Part II: Of Mud and Metal 3: Martin Jones: Into a Warming World 4: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The Farmers' Empires: Climax and Crises in Agrarian States and Cities Part III: The Oscillations of Empires 5: John Brooke: Material Life: Bronze Age Crisis to the Black Death 6: David Northrup: Intellectual Traditions: Philosophy, Science, Religion, and the Arts, 500 BCE - 1350 CE 7: Ian Morris: Growth: Social and Political Organizations, 1000 BC-AD 1350 Part IV: The Climatic Reversal 8: David Northrup: A Converging World: Economic and Ecological Encounters, 1350-1815 9: Manuel Lucena-Giraldo: Renaissances, Reformations, and Mental Revolutions: Intellect and Arts in the Early Modern World 10: Anjana Singh: Connected by Emotions and Experiences: Monarchs, Merchants, Mercenaries, and Migrants in the Early Modern World Part V: The Great Acceleration 11: David Christian: The Anthropocene Epoch: The Background to Two Transformative Centuries 12: Paolo Luca Bernardini: The Modern World and Its Demons: Ideology and After in Arts, Letters and Thought, 1815-2008 13: Jeremy Black: Politics and Society in the Kaleidoscope of Change: Relationships, Institutions, and Conflicts from the Beginnings of Western Hegemony to the American Supremacy Epilogue Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to ignore convention contributed in no small measure to a life of high drama, one which encompassed kidnappings, secret rendezvous, an illegitimate child, accusations of black magic, imprisonments, disappearances, and exile, not to mention court appearances, high-speed chases, a jail-break, deadly disease, royal fury, and - by turns - religious condemnation and conversion.As a child, Frances became a political pawn at the court of King James I. Her wealthy parents, themselves trapped in a disastrous marriage, fought tooth and nail over whom Frances should marry, pulling both king and court into their extended battles. When Frances was fifteen, her father forced her to marry John Villiers, the elder brother of the royal favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. But as her husband succumbed to mental illness, Frances fell for another man, and soon found herself pregnant with her lover''s child.The Viscountess paid a heavy price for her illicit love. Her outraged in-laws used their influence to bring her down. But bravely defying both social and religious convention, Frances refused to bow to the combined authority of her family, her church, or her king, and fought stubbornly to defend her honour, as well as the position of her illegitimate son.On one level a thrilling tale of love and sex, kidnapping and elopement, the life of Frances Coke Villiers is also the story of an exceptional woman, whose personal experiences intertwined with the court politics and religious disputes of a tumultuous and crucially formative period in English history.Trade ReviewBeautiful, very readable, wonderful. * Anna Maria Polidori, Al Femminile *Overall... this is a conscientious book by an author deeply informed about her subject. * Wall Street Journal *[This] lively biography ... brings richly to life the scandals and prosecutions that pursued Edward Coke's beautiful but luckless daughter. ...Luthman writes in an easy, accessible style, with a well-paced narrative, aiming her book at the general reader. Without presuming prior knowledge, she manages to tuck into the folds of this seventeenth-century scandal a rich sample of the latest thinking on the social and political history of the period. * Lorna Hutson, Times Literary Supplement *Lady Purbeck's choices make her life story, told by Johanna Luthman in Love, Madness & Scandal, one of the most fascinating of the 17th century, as well as one of the most salutary... scrupulously researched, thoughtfully argued and carefully written. * Literary Review *Luthman writes in an easy, accessible style, with a well-paced narrative...she manages to tuck into the folds of this seventeenth-century scandal a rich sample of the latest thinking on the social and political history of the period. * Lorna Hutson *Luthman brings to light a lesser-known historical figure and provides a fascinating snapshot of Jacobean society. * Library Review *Scrupulous. * Gerard DeGroot, The Times *[Johanna Luthman] successfully rescues Frances Coke Villiers from being a mere historical footnote in this empathetic examination of one of the early Stuart monarchy's most-notable scandal-tainted women... [She] offers insight into the expectations of countless noblewomen of the age and reveals how remarkable Frances was in living on her own terms. * Publishers Weekly *Johanna Luthman has written a singular account of one of British history's most misunderstood characters. Love, Madness, and Scandal is both a gripping story of Frances Coke Villiers' tumultuous life and a profound meditation on the position of women in seventeenth-century English society. * Amanda Foreman *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on Dates and Spelling List of Illustrations List of Persons Prologue 1: Contentious Origins 2: The Marriage-Merry-Go-Round 3: Marriage and Madness 4: Enter the Lover 5: The Legal Troubles 6: Counters and Convictions 7: Town and Country 8: Frances in France 9: Endings Epilogue Appendix: Family Trees Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCommon sense philosophy was one of eighteenth-century Scotland''s most original intellectual products. It developed as a viable alternative to modern philosophical scepticism, known as the ''Ideal Theory'' or ''the way of ideas''. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of common sense philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment. Thomas Reid and David Hume feature prominently as influential authors of competing ideas in the history and philosophy of common sense. The contributors recover anticipations of Reid''s version of common sense in seventeenth-century Scottish scholasticism; revaluate Reid''s position in the realism versus sentimentalism dichotomy; shed new light on the nature of the ''constitution'' in the anatomy of the mind; identify changes in the nature of sense perception throughout Reid''s published and unpublished works; examine Reid on the non-theist implications of Hume''s philosophy; show how ''polite'' literature shaped James Beattie''s version of common sense; reveal Hume''s response to common sense philosophers; explore English criticisms of the Scottish ''school'', and how Dugald Stewart''s refashioning of common sense responded to a new age and the British reception of German Idealism. In recovering the ways in which Scottish common sense philosophy developed during the long eighteenth century, this volume takes an important step toward a more complete understanding of ''the Scottish philosophy'' and British philosophy more broadly in the age of Enlightenment.Trade Review[An] excellent collection of essays on Schottice common sense philosophy * Jenny Keefe, Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsC. B. Bow: Introduction: Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment 1: Giovanni Gellera: Common Sense and Ideal Theory in Seventeenth Century Scottish Philosophy 2: Gordon Graham: Was Reid a Moral Realist? 3: Claire Etchegaray: Reid on Our Mental Constitution 4: Giovanni B. Grandi: On the Ancestry of Reid's Inquiry: Stewart, Fearn, and Reid's Early Manuscripts 5: Esther Engel Kroeker: Reid's Response to Hume's Moral Atheism: Reid on Morality, Common Sense, and Theism 6: R. J. W. Mills: The Common Sense of a Poet: James Beattie's Essay on Truth (1770) 7: James A. Harris: Hume and the Common Sense Philosophers 8: Paul B. Wood: The 'New Empire of Common Sense': The Reception of Common Sense Philosophy in Britain, 1764-1793 9: C. B. Bow: Dugald Stewart and the Legacy of Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Book Synopsis''The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,'' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety.In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame''s Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define ''walrus''. Written by the bestselling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world''s greatest dictionary.Trade Reviewteeming with knowledge and alive with insights. Winchester handles humor and awe with modesty and cunning. His prose is supremely readable. * New York Times Book Review *exuberant, serious, funny, short, full, entrancingly readable * Jane Gardam, Spectator *compelling reading. Winchester is excellent on the theory and practice of lexicography * Sunday Times *Irresistible * The Independent *Simon Winchester's book is a fascinating catalogue of political wrangles, logistical conundrums and personal battles that underlay the work's creation. This book is a delightful curiosity * Zoe Green, Daily Telegraph *Simon Winchester has told this story with a touch of human drama and with a true sense of the social history that surrounded the enterprise. * Stephen Wade, Contemporary Review *A lively and largely informative chronicle of a still-staggering enterprise * Helen Zaltzman, Observer *A must for language lovers. * The Lady *Table of ContentsFOREWORD; PROLOGUE; EPILOGUE: AND ALWAYS BEGINNING AGAIN; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING; INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently ''forgotten'' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell''s powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the ''Cromwellian'': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded alTrade ReviewThis fascinating book explores how Oliver Cromwell has been remembered, forgotten, misremembered, demonized, and mythologized in Ireland and Irish America for more than three centuries. * D. R. Bisson, CHOICE *Intriguing * Nicholas Canny, Irish Times *This thoughtful, innovative work by Sarah Covington represents the latest, and by far the best, attempt to understand the extraordinary power of Cromwell's name and reputation amongst Irish people at home and abroad... this extraordinarily rich volume not only brings our understanding of Cromwell and his reputation in Ireland on to a new level, it also represents a further important contribution to the burgeoning field of Irish 85 memory studies by a historian who is at the height of her powers. Add to this the attractive pricing by OUP, and The Devil from over the Sea becomes a must-buy book. * Alan Ford, University of Nottingham, The Seventeenth Century *This is a book that people with even a passing interest in Irish history have an obligation to acquire and to read. * Eamon Maher, Technological University Dublin *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Aftermath 2: Religious Cromwell 3: Political Cromwell 4: Propertied Cromwell 5: Ruinous Cromwell 6: Folkloric Cromwell 7: Migrated Cromwell Conclusion

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Book SynopsisNeighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing estates, and other state provisions.Trade ReviewBrodie has taken debates about engagement with stratification within the working class...Rather, Brodie foregrounds the importance of personal attitudes, gender and age in the determination of status. * Daniel Weinbren, The Open University, Family & Community History, Vol. 26/2 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Police 2: Insurance 3: Housing 4: Education 5: Tory-Socialists Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to ''the words on the page'' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians. Among the major figures examined in detail are T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, William Empson, and Raymond Williams, while there are also original discussions of such figures as Basil Willey, L.C. Knights, Q.D. Leavis, and Richard Hoggart. The Nostalgic Imagination argues that in the period between Eliot''s The Sacred Wood and Williams''s The Long Revolution, the writings of such critics came to occupy the cultural space left by academic history''s retreat into specialized, archive-bound monographs. Their work challenged the assumptions of the Whig interpretation of English history, and entailed a revision of the traditional relations between ''literary history'' and ''general history''. Combining close textual analysis with wide-ranging intellectual history, this volume both revises the standard story of the history of literary criticism and illuminates a central feature of the cultural history of twentieth-century Britain.Trade ReviewThe Nostalgic Imagination takes its place among Stefan Collini's works as an example par excellence of the rigour that, he teaches us, the critic must exert to remain even-handed: which is in itself the highest praise. * Jack Ingram, Times Literary Supplement *The Nostalgic Imagination reveals the surprising ways that even the most seemingly ahistorical works from this age of criticism not only depended upon conceptions of history, but also influentially conveyed those conceptions to a wider public. * Guy Ortolano, New York University, Ceercles *Stefan Collini's The Nostalgic Imagination... is the most dazzling piece of literary criticism I have read in ages an attempt to decode some of the historical assumptions that underlie the way in which early-twentieth-century critics such as Eliot, Leavis and Empson approached their subject, and written with a wit and intelligence that puts most current academic criticism to shame. * D J Taylor, The Tablet *Collini's book is leavened with sly humour … persuasive and relentlessly interesting * Tony Roberts, PNReview *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Whig History and the Mind of England 2: Scrutinizing the Present Phase of Human History 3: Science and Capitalism as Background 4: Rationalism, Christianity, and Ambiguity 5: The History of the Reading Public 6: The Long Industrial Revolution 7: Literary history as cultural history Postscript

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Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world.The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across societTrade ReviewHugely impressive and absorbing * Anna Maria Barry, BBC History Magazine *Davies's achievement is to have written a sort of counter-history to the kinds of early 19th-century histories of witchcraft with which his narrative opens. He eschews the retrospective diagnoses of the early psychiatrists and instead places individual experiences in the broader context of social and cultural change...He has assembled an extraordinary trove of snapshots of individual lives, and he treats them with sympathy and sensitivity. * George Morris, Literary Review *Thanks to works as insightful as this one, we can better appreciate the early efforts to understand the mind. * Simon Ings, New Scientist *An important addition to the history of psychiatry, but also to histories of folklore and religion in the 19th century. * Jennifer Wallis, Fortean Times *Fascinating * A Bad Witch's Blog *This innovative "mental archaeology" sets new agendas for historians of madness and the supernatural, showing the surprising cross-fertilization between faith and psychiatry in the nineteenth century. From the theorists of "demonomania" to the unfortunate souls whose fears blended witchcraft with electricity, the book brings to life the remarkable stories of people grappling with irrationality in modernity. * Dr William G. Pooley, University of Bristol *Troubled by Faith offers a rich and memorable examination of the supernatural in nineteenth-century culture. Physicians pathologized magical thinking, but the so-called delusions of asylum patients were rooted in broader societal currents. Combining meticulous research with incisive analysis, Owen Davies compels us to reflect on the madness inherent in modernity. * Dr Martha McGill, University of Warwick *A fascinating read * Elizabeth Wood *Table of ContentsPreface Part one: A world of insanity Introduction 1: Explaining away the witch trials 2: Pathologizing the supernatural present 3: Madness in popular medicine 4: The mad, the bad, and the supernatural in court Part two: Inner lives Introduction 5: Between Heaven and Hell 6: Encounters with witches, spirits, and fairies 7: Making sense of science and technology Epilogue

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Book SynopsisHistories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the ''history of everyday life''. The ''history of everyday life'' was a pedagogical construct based on the perceived educational needs of the new, mass democracy that emerged after 1918. It was popularized to ordinary people in educational settings, through books, in classrooms and museums, and on BBC radio. After tracing its development and dissemination between the 1920s and the 1960s, this book argues that ''history of everyday life'' declined in the 1970s not because academics invented an alternative ''new'' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered this form of popular social history untenable in the changing context of mass education. Histories of Everyday Life ultimately uses the subject ofTrade ReviewIt is a fascinating and convincing analysis based on meticulous research-evidenced by the large bibliography and extensive footnoting. It is likely to remain a key text for those whose interests lie in education, museums, local history, local government and even for those of us who recall with nostalgia some of their own experiences. * Tim Lomas, Family & Community History *In Histories of Everyday Life, Laura Carter offers a fresh and compelling take on the origins and popularization of social history in Britain in the decades after the First World War. * Jon Lawrence, Twentieth Century British History *The book will interest not just the education specialist, but really anyone who is keen to review the much explored ground of 20th British society from an original, new vantage point. * Clémence Fourton, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique *For compelling reasons that Carter carefully unplaits and then rebraids, ordinary children and their ordinary parents were offered resources like books, radio broadcasts, museum exhibits, and school curricula that focused on the way people like them had lived in earlier centuries. Using a fresh approach to both materials and methodologies, she teases out scarce evidence to demonstrate that exposure to these resources profoundly affected people's experience and consciousness. * Leslie Howsam, Journal of British Studies *Carter's text offers a valuable lens through which to consider educational and social change in twentieth century Britain; she demonstrates the importance of understanding these processes of change in conjunction with each other. Her work contributes to a growing reconsideration of the British education system as being shaped by factors beyond political actions and by people beyond political actors, an approach that nuances our understanding of both British educational history and British social history. * Florence Smith, HISTORY: Reviews of New Books *Employing an illuminating periodisation and a distinctive, deftly gendered, notion of conservative modernity, Carter has drawn upon a wide range of sources and used 22 illustrations, an index and data on the interviewees to connect publishing, pedagogic, municipal and curatorial developments and provide a multi layered analysis of shifts in British culture. * Daniel Weinbren, Family & Community History *This meticulously researched monograph interweaves oral histories with a wealth of primary materials, including cigarette cards, children's essays, and photographs. Its contents will interest a wide range of historians, and its challenge to conventional narratives of social history will prove as stimulating to established scholars as to undergraduates exploring the subject for the first time. * Max Long, Cultural and Social History *For historians of a certain generation, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class created a new social history that illuminated the neglected lives of ordinary people. * D. L. LeMahieu, American Historical Review *In less than 300 pages, Carter leads the reader masterfully through the many settings in which the history of everyday life unfolded in the first decades of the 20th century * Thomas J. Sojka, Los Angeles Review of Books *Employing an illuminating periodisation and a distinctive, deftly gendered, notion of conservative modernity, Carter has drawn upon a wide range of sources and used 22 illustrations, an index and data on the interviewees to connect publishing, pedagogic, municipal and curatorial developments and provide a multi-layered analysis of shifts in British culture. * Daniel Weinbren, Family & Community History *Revealing and fascinating about many facets of twentieth century British culture. * Pat Thane, Cercles *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Education and popular social history in Britain Part I: Defining and justifying a new social history after 1918 1: The publishing of popular social history books 2: Social history for 'ordinary' school pupils Part II: Mid-twentieth century popularization 3: The 'history of everyday life' on BBC radio 4: 'Histories of everyday life' in local museums 5: The 'history of everyday life' as a cultural policy in London local government Part III: The educational unmaking of popular social history 6: Social history and mass education in the 1970s Conclusion: Everyday life at the end of the educational century

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Book SynopsisRacial classification has shaped modern history and continues to shape our lives and life-chances. In The Race Illusion, philosopher Adam Hochman argues that there are no races, only groups misunderstood to be races: racialized groups.

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Book SynopsisVictorian Britain is often considered as the high point of ''laissez-faire'', the place and the time when people were most ''free'' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book explores the truth of that assumption and what it might mean. It considers what the Victorian State did or did not do, what were the prevailing definitions and practices of ''liberty'', what other sources of discipline and authority existed beyond the State to structure people''s lives - in sum, what were the broad conditions under which such a profound belief in ''liberty'' could flourish, and a complex society be run on those principles. Contributors include leading scholars in British political, social and cultural history, so that ''liberty'' is seen in the round, not just as a set of ideas or of political slogans, but also as a public and private philosophy that structured everyday life. Consideration is also given to the full range of British subjects in the nineteenth century - men, women, people of all classes, from all parts of the British Isles - and to placing the British experience in a global and comparative perspective.Trade Review...should refresh readers' understanding of mid-Victorian Britain * Contemporary Review *Taken together [the] essays create a multi-faceted picture, but each individual contribution is highly nuanced...This authoritative survey broadens our understanding of these key themes and suggests profitable ways in which inter-disciplinary approaches can be pursued. * Continuity and Change, Volume 22/2 *Table of ContentsI: THE STATE; II: LIBERTIES; III: AUTHORITIES; IV: DISCIPLINES

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Book SynopsisWhat does U.S. history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraq war, this survey chronicles the contributions, recognized and unrecognized, that women have made to the American experience. Committed to a multicultural approach to women''s history, the narrative opens not with the European settlers who came to America but with the Native American peoples who were already there. Women who seized opportunities for political and cultural influence during and after the American Revolution were mainly white women. Women''s domestic and waged labor shaped the Northern economy, and slavery affected the lives of Southern women, both free and enslaved. Women took the lead in 19th century movements such as temperance, moral reform, and abolitionism, as well as women''s rights. The demand for the vote first enunciated at Seneca Falls in 1848 culminated in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. New patterns of work, leisure, and education shaped modern women''s lives after 1920, as did international events such as the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Women played especially large roles in the civil rights movement and the revival of feminism, as well as in the backlash these movements provoked.Moving beyond the well-documented lives of white middle-class women, this survey recognizes the diversity of American women''s experiences defined by race, ethnicity, and class, but also geography, sexual orientation, age, and religion. At the core of the narrative is the recognition that gender--the changing historical and cultural constructions of roles assigned to the biological differences of the sexes--is central to understanding the history of American women''s lives, and the history of the United States.Trade ReviewI imagine that a reader new to U.S. women's history would come away from this book with a sense of the ways in which race, ethnicity, and class intersect with gender and the forces that have shaped women's lives from the past into the present. And that is the intent of the volume. * Leila J. Rupp, The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; Preface ; Chapter 1: In the Beginning: North America's Women to 1750 ; Chapter 2: Freedom's Ferment, 1750-1848 ; Chapter 3: The Challenges of Citizenship, 1848-1920 ; Chapter 4: Modern American Women, 1920 to the present ; References ; Further reading ; Index

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Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Between Yesterday and Tomorrow 2. The NIC and the Transition to a Non-racial Democracy: 'To Be or not To Be'? 3. Waiting for change 4. The Hopscotch of Life 5. Hashim Amla: Beyond Boundaries 6. Between the twice born and the born again 7. Hindus and Muslims: The Many Threads of Change and Continuity 8. Place, Memory, Nostalgia 9. Modi meets Mohandas 10. Classrooms of Mobility 11. The 'Tyranny of Numbers' and the Bitter-sweet Fruit of Change 12. Capital Accumulation in New Times 13. Political Connections, Crassness and Capital Wars 14. After the Rainbow, Dark Clouds? Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFrom Shakespeare to The Beatles, the battle of Agincourt has dominated the cultural landscape as one of the most famous battles in British history. Anne Curry seeks to find out how and why the legacy of Agincourt has captured the popular imagination.Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed ''Agincourt''. But why and how has Agincourt come to mean so much, to so many? Why do so many people claim their ancestors served at the battle? Is the Agincourt of popular image the real Agincourt, or is our idea of the battle simply taken from Shakespeare''s famous depiction of it? Written by the world''s leading expert on the battle, this book shows just why it has occupied such a key place in English identity and history in the six centuries since it was fought, exTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Anne Curry analyses the evidence with the authority of the doyenne of Agincourt historians ... [an] excellent narrative of the fighting. * Lawrence James, The Times *Nobody knows more about Agincourt than Anne Curry... Her new work addresses the reasons for Agincourt's enduring fame. Clearly, much of it was down to Shakespeare, who was at his roaring best when he dramatized Henry Vs day of triumph in the late 1590s, a time when the English public was especially hungry for cod-medieval jingo. What is less well known, but illustrated beautifully by Curry's book, is the fact that the immortalisation of Agincourt started long before Shakespeare. * Dan Jones, The Sunday Times *Interesting, commendably accessible, and admirably well researched. * Susan Elkin, Independent on Sunday *Curry compiles an exhaustive list of Agincourt's resonance throughout French and British letters and art, and she is especially incisive on the 600th anniversary of the battles about its evolving and often ambiguous message to the sometimes allied, sometimes warring French and British. * Victor Davis Hanson, Times Literary Supplement *Gives a good account of Agincourt's after-life in Shakespeare's Henry V, and in myth, legend, literature and propaganda ... * Malcolm Vale, London Review of Books *Wonderfully accessible ... By exploring English history from a truly intriguing angle, Curry's insightful book shows us how the myth of Agincourt, harnessed by jingoism, has been used to convince the country on repeated occasions of its own invincibility. Fascinating stuff. * Tim Williamson, History of War *Entertaining and readable. * Francesca Trowse, Military History *If one accepts that fact can be separated from fiction, Curry's Agincourt can hardly be bettered. * Oxford Journals: French History *What can one learn from a 600-year-old battle? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Anne Curry's telling of the Battle of Agincourt, and her analysis of English King Henry V's leadership in that battle against the French, yields new insights not just about the battle itself, but about how the memories and myths that surround it have influenced both personal and national identities. * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *does an admirable job of showing how national identity, myth-making, and popular culture can influence the historical narrative ... * New York Journal of Books *This is as much a book for the non-specialist as for the historian or enthusiast. Professor Curry writes in a style that is eminently readable. Highly recommended. * Geoffrey Carter, The Battlefield Trust Magazine *There are many books about Agincourt, but few authors can claim to have contributed as much to the subject as the industrious Anne Curry. * Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter (SALON) *Forget Laurence Olivier or Kenneth Branagh, or even Shakespeare, and instead feast on this historical extravaganza which tells how the battle was fought, how the protagonists lined up and what was actually achieved by the great victory. * Northern Echo, Steve Craggs *Curry is fascinating both on how Shakespeare adapted his source material for Henry V and on how the battle, our perceptions often governed by Shakespeare, has been used, often for propaganda, right through to the present day. * The Stage, Susan Elkin *Anne Curry's brilliant historiographical discussion traces how the myth of Agincourt and the image of a small but doughty force prevailing against incredible odds have become in no small part because of Shakespeare embedded in our national consciousness. Having written on Agincourt before, Curry knows the scholarly debate well... [A] fascinating account of the battle and its mythology. * Literary Review, Mary Wellesley *splendid * Chris Green, Suffolk and Norfolk Life *Table of Contents1: Agincourt and Medieval Warfare 2: The Battle 3: 'The Glorious Commencement' or 'The Accursed Day' 4: Alarms and Excursions. The Enduring Influence of Shakespeare's Agincourt 5: The Bowmen and the Bow: National Identity and Cultural Memory 6: 'Historians Refight Agincourt' Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisInterweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with commentary, this text shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation.

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Book SynopsisIt has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, the author demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.

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Book SynopsisAn anecdotal history of the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford and its influence on the development of modern animal ecology.

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Book SynopsisShows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.Trade Review"A creative, vital entry point to explore the tangle of federal mortgage financing, housing reform, and deep-seated racism.... This well-written, much-needed study brings together the realms of urban history, race relations, and economic opportunity." - Choice "Freund's book unravels the ties that bound (and bind) race and property, and, in the process, shows how that linkage altered white racial ideals and politics in postwar America." - Andrew Wiese, Journal of American History"

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Book SynopsisThe German Democratic Republic has become the subject of novels, memoirs and films, and the backdrop for general debates over the power of intellectuals in contemporary media and society. This collection considers the demise of the GDR and its impact on the place of intellectuals.

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Book SynopsisIn 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as history would have it, folly. The author lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think.Trade Review"Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: 'Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.'... She tells a new story." - Simon Kuper, Financial Times"

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Book SynopsisArgues that the history of televising philosophy is crucial to understanding the struggle over French national identity in the postwar period. This work insists that we jettison presumptions about the anti-intellectual nature of the visual field, and engages critical questions about the survival of national cultures in a globalizing world.Trade Review"Anyone who wants to understand the unique role that philosophy continues to play in contemporary France can now read Tamara Chaplin's superbly documented study of philosophy on French TV. For American readers, Turning On the Mind raises a host of serious issues for comparison and debate." - Alice Kaplan, author of French Lessons"

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Book SynopsisIn popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far beyond its paying membership to become part of modern American society. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Harcourt shows how the Klan's racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America's prevailingTrade Review"This sobering and important book powerfully explains the relationship of Ku Klux Klan members and the broader 'Klannish' movement to the emergence of modern American culture in the 1920s. In a time when white supremacy was widespread and unapologetic, the Ku Klux Klan was enormously popular. Drawing on an impressive body of research, Harcourt shows us the remarkable extent to which the Klan became central to American culture of the day. Klan newspapers proliferated nationally and gained huge circulations. Klannish Americans played songs like 'Onward Christian Klansman' and 'Daddy Swiped our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan' on their phonographs and radios; indeed, a Klan-controlled radio station became the fifth most powerful in the nation. Popular books catered to cultural fascination with the Klan. Major publishers nudged authors to take a pro-Klan tone, as readers cancelled subscriptions to publications critical of the Klan. Klan baseball teams and basketball teams were widespread, and sometimes sensationally competed against Catholic, Jewish, and African-American rivals. While Harcourt shows that many found the Klan profoundly un-American, it was very much present at the creation of, and influenced the shape of modern popular culture."--Elaine Frantz "author of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction " "Offers some useful background information. . . . An exhaustive survey of Klansmen's appearances, variously as heroes or villains, in the era's novels, movies, songs, plays, musicals, and more." --Adam Hochschild "New York Review of Books " "An impressive work of archival history. . . .The book is essential reading, because it shows that, rather than a radical fringe group, the 1920s KKK was a central, well-respected part of white Protestant culture."--Raphael Magarik "The Forward " "An intriguing exploration of the rise and fall of the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . .Recommended."--Choice "In this detailed and impressively researched book, Harcourt demonstrates that the Ku Klux Klan was embedded in the popular culture of the 1920s, showing that the Klan absorbed and took part in distinctive aspects of American popular culture, including movies, music, print media, radio, and sports. The book clearly establishes the Klan's presence in American popular culture during the 1920s, which in itself is an important contribution to the debates concerning the representativeness, relative modernity, and impact of the Klan on American life, despite its political failures. This is an important and original book in Klan historiography."--Thomas R. Pegram "author of One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s " "An outstanding book that will appeal to laypersons and scholars alike. It deserves a wide readership . .With sharp analysis and clear writing, Harcourt has substantially increased our understanding of racism and xenophobia in the 1920s and identified new directions for further inquiry."--The Annals of Iowa "A valuable resource for anyone researching American culture during the 1920s."--American Journalism "A superb piece of scholarship. . .[Harcourt] is particularly good at showing how anti-Klan cultural productions helped legitimatize the Klan's views."--Eric Herschthal "The New Republic " "With this impressively researched monograph, historian Felix Harcourt works to dislodge a stubborn myth about the 1920s Ku Klux Klan: that the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire operated at the margins of American life."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era "Ku Klux Kulture breaks new ground. . .A handy reference work that will be much used. . .Harcourt piles on the evidence to support the book's thesis that the Klan, both as subject and consumer, was at the center of American popular culture in the 1920s."--Arkansas Review

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Book SynopsisAfter 1949 the Chinese Communists carried out land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the formation of people's communes. The new economic and political organizations that emerged have made peasant life more comfortable and secure, but many economic and status differentials and traditional customs remain resistant to change. Focusing on rural Kwangtung province, William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte examine the rural work-incentive system, village equality and inequality, rural health care and education, marriage customs, and the position of women, among other topics, to determine what and how much of the traditional Chinese ways of life is left in Communist China.

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Book SynopsisIn over sixty years of involvement in social workas practitioner, supervisor, teacher, consultant, and authorHelen Harris Perlman has become all but a legend. She has served on national policy committees, lectured around the world, and participated in pioneering social work programs and research. Her wide-ranging experiences enrich her vision of the social work profession: typically she is able to see the forest and the trees. Grounded in psychodynamic and social theory, lucid, forthright, and compassionate, her writings serve to inspire and guide experienced practitioners, teachers, and present-day students. Looking Back to See Ahead offers pieces chosen for their centrality to Perlman's thinking on some of the major problems of social work practice and education. To each essay she has added her current, informal comments. Refreshingly original is the section After Hours, in which she captures, in sketches and verse, the humor and heartache that are inevitable in any profession that d

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Book SynopsisThis work traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. It argues that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers.

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Book SynopsisThrough the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in betweenthe tumultuous decade post-Stonewall when the queer community's vitality and creativity exploded across the country, even as the AIDS crisis emerged? Michael Denneny was there for it all. As a founder and editor of the wildly influential magazine Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin's Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authorsmany for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editionspropelling queer voices into the mainstream cuTrade Review“Because of his pivotal role in creating modern gay literature, Denneny has perhaps done more than any other single individual to actually create contemporary gay literary culture. On Christopher Street shows that there was a first-rate intellect behind his more familiar role as publisher and editor. While this volume is an important window on the recent past, it also demonstrates the extent to which one man’s lively and humane intellect influenced the creation of contemporary gay culture.” * David Carter, author of Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution *“On Christopher Street offers a remarkable glimpse into the first decades after the Stonewall Riots, a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new culture in formation. A valuable and thoughtful account of a foundational moment in American cultural history.” * David K. Johnson, author of The Lavender Scare *“There simply is no other person in the LGBT community who has been as pivotal for LGBT publishing, from newspapers and magazines to books. This important book is a testament to the history of our community.” * Mark Segal, founder and publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and author of And Then I Danced *"Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays On Christopher Street illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. . . . The book’s primary focus is the state of the burgeoning gay literary scene and its public and critical reception. In preserving articles as they appeared at the time, the book revives the atmosphere, hopes, fears, ambitions, and challenges of the nascent community, as experienced by Denneny as a gay man living and working in New York. It also exposes the flawed, underdeveloped personal perspectives that Denneny spent subsequent years grappling with and refining." * Foreword *"As a founder and editor of the wildly influential literary journal Christopher Street and later as the first openly gay editor at a major publishing house, Denneny critically shaped publishing around gay subjects in the 1970s and beyond. At St. Martin’s Press, he acquired a slew of landmark titles by gay authors—many for his groundbreaking Stonewall Inn Editions—propelling queer voices into the mainstream cultural conversation. . . . On Christopher Street revisits that heady period to map out the cultural forces, geographies, and storylines of LGBTQ in those decades. Through 41 micro-chapters, Denneny draws on his journal writings, articles, interviews, and more from the 1970s and ’80s to put us there in this formative and also tragic time." * Queer Forty *"As the queer community has survived countless attempts at suppression and elimination, this book offers not only a historical account of the political environment of the 1970s-80s. It also showcases tried and true forms of activism and rhetoric, ones that have kept and continue to make our survival possible." * Out in Jersey *"If you love reading about gay life, you owe a debt to Michael Denneny." * Passport *Table of ContentsPreface: Becoming Real Part 1: Morning in Gay America (1970–1980)Christopher Street Magazine Dead Souls at The New Yorker: A Puzzling Case Lovers: The Story of Two Men “Everything Is Only Ten Years Old”: A Conversation with Felice Picano Decent Passions: Real Stories about Love Blue Moves: Conversation with a Male Porn Dancer Part 2: Beginning to Count Ourselves (1980–1983) Archeologist of the Present: Michel Foucault in New York City Gay Politics and Its Premises: Sixteen Propositions Sixteen Propositions: An Exchange Scaring the Horses; or the Question of Gay Identity Who Are We? What Do We Want? How Best Might We Get it? Part 3: The State of the Tribe (1983–1987) Gay Pride and Survival in the Eighties The State of Gay Criticism Oedipus Revised: David Leavitt’s The Lost Language of Cranes Paragraph 175, or How Dark Can It Get? A Culture in a Crucible Part 4: Workaday Publishing, or Hegel’s Ernst (1985–1988) Further Down the Road The Universal Voice of Gay Writers A Conversation with Allen Barnett How to Review a Gay Novel Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies Editing Fiction and the Question of “Political Correctness” Part 5: On the Raft of the Medusa (1988–1990) The Death of a Generation An Intellectual Ambush A Quilt of Many Colors Preaching to the Choir The Present Moment A Letter to Ed White Part 6: In the Gathering Darkness an Age of Heroes (1991–1996) Eulogy for Allen Barnett Honoring Richard Rouillard Eulogy for Randy Shilts Necessary Bread: Gay Writing Comes of Age Stonewall: From Event to Idea Three Takes on John Preston Food for Life: A Dinner Party in Two Hours Turning . . . Turning: The Boys in the Band A Mouthful of Air: The Case of Larry Kramer Key West Seminar Part 7: Reconsiderations (1996–2014) Hymn to the Gym AIDS Books: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going Affectionate Men Last Letter to Paul Monette Afterword: Looking Back Appendix A: Out Magazine Appendix B: A Few Words about Christopher Street’s Finances Appendix C: The Stonewall Inn Editions Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisVan Riper chronicles the Victorian debate over the idea of prehistoric human origins within the context of Victorian science, showing how the notion of human antiquity forced Victorians to redefine their assumptions about human evolution and the relationship of science to Christianity.

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Book SynopsisThe Baroque period stretched from the end of the 16th to the second half of the 17th century. In this book, 13 scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes and social structures as they are reflected in Baroque personae, or characteristic social roles.

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Book SynopsisIn this study of newborn weight and economic growth in Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal and Vienna between 1850 and 1930, W. Peter Ward explores the relation between infant size, economic development, and living standards of working-class women in the industrializing West.

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1830s, the United States experienced a wave of movements for social change over temperance, the abolition of slavery, anti-vice activism, and a host of other moral reforms. This title argues that together they represented a distinctive style of mobilization. It is a revelatory account of how religion lay at the heart of social reform.Trade Review"In Bearing Witness against Sin, Michael Young offers a creative and insightful reconsideration of the specifically religious origins of the national social movement in America. This is a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of religion in politics and of the political capacities of religious traditions." - Christian Smith, author of American Evangelism: Embattled and Thriving"

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Book SynopsisThrough a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.Trade Review“Patterns of Plague is an innovative, well-crafted and important study in intellectual, cultural, and medical history. Jones's writing is sophisticated and her interpretations original and well-substantiated.” Mary Lindemann, University of Miami

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Book SynopsisSome 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples' War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occuTrade Review"Each chapter provides a contribution to an understanding of the war beyond long dominant narratives. Moreover, this collection seeks to propel further research into the impact of the war from the same societal-political level of examination that it employs. The Peoples’ War? is intentionally posed as a question, in part, to stimulate additional questions itself and, at this essential function of scholarship, it delivers." *Journal of Military *

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender.Trade Review“Wyporska has made a substantial contribution to the rapidly growing number of excellent studies of Central and Eastern European witchcraft, and offers her readers a rich and engrossing survey of Polish witchcraft that provides ample encouragement for future research.” (Hans Peter Broedel, Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, Vol. 12 (1), 2017)Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Witchcraft in Context: Histories and Historiographies 2. The World of the Witches: Confessions and Conflicts 3. Witchcraft and Gender: Intimate Servants and Excluded Masculinities 4. Framing the Witch: Legal Theories and Realities 5. us Deus, Sine Diabolo: The Ecclesiastical Witch 6. Beyond demonology: Blame the Witches 7. Sceptical Voices: Ending the Era 8. Epilogue: Comparisons and Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBased on thousands of letters written by patients and their relatives and on a wide range of other sources, this book provides the first comprehensive account of how early modern people understood, experienced and dealt with common diseases and how they dealt with them on a day-to-day basis.Trade Review'Stolberg's compelling study demonstrates the vitality of the social history of medicine, and shows that it is possible to capture the sensations of the sick in past centuries.' - Hannah Newton, University of Cambridge, Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsSome Thoughts on Theory Sources Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: ILLNESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE The Concern for Oneself Disease and the Self The Experience of Pain The Search for Meaning: Religion, Witchcraft and Astrology The Search for Meaning: Illness, Way of Life and Biography The Narrative Reconstruction of Personal History Anxieties The Physician's Audience: Illness and the Bedside Community Nursing Care The Medical Marketplace The Doctor-Patient Relationship PART II: PERCEPTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Medical Popularization From Temperament to Character Plethora and Apoplexy Fluxes, Gout and Rheumatism 'Gichter' and Cramps Acrimonies Red Murrain (Erysipelas) Scurvy The Therapy of Acrimonies Miasms and Contagia: Plague, French Disease and English Sweat Indigestion, Winds and Slime Obstruction and Disrupted Excretion Stagnation and Deposits Cancer Pathological Heat Vapors Fever Consumption and Consumptive Fever Expenditure and Exhaustion Dropsy Seminal Economy PART III: DOMINANT DISCOURSE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF DISEASE The Sensible Body A New Disease: the Vapors Historical Roots: 'Vapores', Hypochondria and Hysteria The Rise of the Nerves Embodiment Critique of Civilization The Sensible Woman The Cult of Sensibility Illness as Protest Conclusion: A New Bourgeois Habitus Manuscript Sources Printed Sources

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